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Jennifer L. Knox Guest Blogger April 1-7
This week we welcome back Jennifer L. Knox as our guest blogger. Jennifer’s latest book of poems, The Mystery of the Hidden Driveway, is available from Bloof Books. Her poems have appeared in The…
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Adrienne Rich, 1929 – 2012 [by David Lehman]
In twenty-five years of working on The Best American Poetry, I had lost only two of the guest editors with whom I worked closely for "their" year — A. R. Ammons (ed. BAP 1994)…
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Theo Van Gogh (by Lawrence J. Epstein)
Vincent Van Gogh was born 159 years ago today. But that's not a picture of him. It's a picture of his younger brother Theo, who virtually single-handedly provided the financial and emotional support that…
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John Wooden Coached Basketball Champs with Poetry [by Catherine Woodard]
John Wooden, who coached UCLA to a surely unsurpassable record of 10 NCAA basketball championships, considered poetry one of his most effective coaching tools. Poetry was not for game days, but for the locker…
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Dolores in Switzerland, 1954 (by Steven Rea)
I found this photo from one of the dealers that I source my movie-stars-on-bikes photos from. (See Hollywood Rides a Bike, the international bestseller!) It's stamped "Sep 19 1954," and someone (a newspaper photo…
